House Renovation

The house we are renovating is over 100 years old, covers 4 stories high including a semi-sunken basement that lacks a damp-proof course or DPC. The level of the basement is below ground level, most of the sides are dug out, still there are areas that are underground and it’s significantly below ground level so [...]

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Prior to purchasing the house we are renovating (it’s taking soooo long!) we rented a property from Havelok Homes Housing Association for 5 long years. We moved there through what’s known as a homeswap, basically you find another Housing Association tenant willing to swap with you. At the time of the move I’d recently started [...]

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Note: I do not recommend using RoofTec for flat roofing work, the easiest of the roofs they replaced leaked in multiple places due to poor design. Anyone that’s followed my intermittent posts (sorry very busy with SEO consulting work and I’ve hurt my hip, so work ground to a slow crawl) will know we had [...]

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We planned to overboard the ceilings (meaning we leave the old ceilings in place and add new plasterboard over them) because the current old lathe and plaster ceilings (probably the original ceilings so well over 100 years old) are at the beginning stages of falling off in some rooms! Near enough anywhere the previous owners [...]

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Note: I do not recommend using RoofTec for flat roofing work, the easiest of the roofs they replaced leaked in multiple places due to poor design. Covering a few days of roofing work here. Early Tuesday morning two Roofers from Rooftec (same ones we met on Friday, in the end they did all the work [...]

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Note: I do not recommend using RoofTec for flat roofing work, the easiest of the roofs they replaced leaked in multiple places due to poor design. All I seem to do is think about flat roofs this month!! OK, Friday morning 8:30am ish Rooftec roofers give us a call (we are at home getting ready [...]

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Note: I do not recommend using RoofTec for flat roofing work, the easiest of the roofs they replaced leaked in multiple places due to poor design. One of the owners of Rooftec came to the house on Monday, showed him the underside of the two flat dormer roofs that had been done wrong. He tried [...]

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Note: I do not recommend using RoofTec for flat roofing work, the easiest of the roofs they replaced leaked in multiple places due to poor design. Continueing on from the last post Flat Roofing by Rooftec (Glass Fiber Flat Roof) regarding the replacement of our flat roofs. Ran into a big problem with the last [...]

Continue Reading Flat Roofs NOT Done Right!!!

Note: I do not recommend using RoofTec for flat roofing work, the easiest of the roofs they replaced leaked in multiple places due to poor design. Despite the positive nature of this blog post RoofTec are not a roofing company I’d recommend, please read all the comments at the bottom and read other relevant posts [...]

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